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instance method

IO#tell

tell → integer

Returns the current position (in bytes) in self (see Position):

Example
f = File.new('t.txt')
f.tell     # => 0
f.readline # => "This is line one.\n"
f.tell     # => 19

Related: IO#pos=, IO#seek.

IO#pos is an alias for IO#tell.

See also #syswrite #to_i #sysseek #to_io also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.0